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Letters Patent No. 95,805, date-l1, October 12, 1869.

IMPROVEMENT IN SHOES.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making p art of the same.

To all persons to whom these presents mag/ come Be it known that I, Amos S. KELLY, of Haverhill, of the county .of Essex, and State of Massachusetts,

have invented a new and useful Invention, having Lreference to Shoes; and do hereby declare the same to be fully described in the accompanying drawings, of which- Figure l is. atop view, and

Figure 2, side elevation of a shoe lprovided with my invention.

y thevanip, in manner as shown at a u. in iig. 3. l Next IVbend up theinsteppart or back port-ion b of 'the vamp into an obtuse angle with the-front portion d, so as t-o draw the two edges of' each of the slits apart from each other the neeessary'distanee to cause the instep-part of thevamp, when the shoe is made,

'not to uncomfortably bind on the instep ofthe wearer of the shoe.

Next I insert and fix, by sewing or otherwise, in

each of the slits, when so opened, a gore, c, to till the space.

The shoe is next to be iinished in the ordinary way.

ln this manner I am enabled to make not only an ornamental shoe, but one which usually willtt bett-er to the instep, and not bind inconveniently thereon, as would be the case ofte-n were the vamp not cut and bent as explained.

My invention is specially applic-able to slippers,'in whiohl usually make the gore of pieces of red woven leather, and the vamp of black glazed leather, or that of other proper kind or color.

In `the drawings- `B denotes the heel-piece, or that part of the shoeupper which is back of the vamp.

The .sole is shown'at (l. i

I claim the newV or improved manufacture of shoe, as' made' lwith the l slits and -gores arranged -on the vamp, and with the instep-part of the vamp bent .to an'angle with thefront portion of the said vamp, in ina-nner as and for the purpose speoiiied. y v

, AMOS S. KELLY. Witnesses HQ EDDY, S. N. PIPER. 

